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West Indies Twenty20 champions Trinidad and Tobago will have to play qualifying matches for the second-year running before the Champions League 2012 to join the four IPL teams and two teams each from Australia and South Africa

ESPNcricinfo staff04-Jul-2012West Indies Twenty20 champions Trinidad and Tobago will have to play qualifying matches for the second-year running to make it to the main draw of the Champions League, a situation that T&T chief operations manager Dudnath Ramkessoon termed ‘unfortunate’.Ramkessoon’s comments came after a fourth IPL team was granted direct entry into the tournament, while the Twenty20 champions from the West Indies, Pakistan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, and two teams from England, will have to compete in a pre-tournament qualifier for two remaining spots. Apart from the Indian teams, two teams each from Australia and South Africa gain direct entry.”We have not received any word yet from the committee, but with regard to what has been reported, it is rather unfortunate that we have to participate in a play-off, seeing how well we have performed in our last two appearances,” Ramkessoon was quoted as saying on the West Indies Players’ Association website.T&T were the runners up in the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2009 and qualified for the main draw after topping their group last year.”Being the champions of the West Indies and given how well we have played, you would have thought we would have gone to the main draw because of the quality of our play and the fact that people like to see us play.”However, Ramkessoon added that T&T would ensure it played its strongest team, to top the qualifying and leave nothing to chance.”We are aiming to top that group to ensure that we qualify. We will prepare with that in mind,” he said.Three of T&T’s top players – Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Sunil Narine – are contracted to play for IPL teams. But discussions have been initiated with a view to having these players representing T&T in the tournament.The CLT20 will be played between October 9 and 28 this year. Cape Town, Johannesburg, Centurion and Durban have been named as venues for the tournament, though the dates and venues for the qualifiers, as well as the schedule, are yet to be released.

Michael Dighton has resigned as Canada’s coach after being in charge of the side for eight months

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Apr-2012Michael Dighton has resigned as Canada’s coach after being in charge of the side for eight months. Dighton accompanied the team on a preparation camp for the World Twenty20 Qualifier in Sri Lanka, the World Twenty20 Qualifier in the UAE and Canada’s tour of Namibia during his tenure.Cricket Canada vice president Vimal Hardat said he was disappointed to lose a coach with the calibre of Dighton. “[We] understand his reasons [for resigning] and thank him for his contribution to Cricket Canada. We wish him all the best in the future,” Hardat said.Cricket Canada’s CEO Doug Hannum said that the board will need to find a replacement quickly as Canada look to qualify for the 2014 T20 Cricket World Cup and the 2015 Cricket World Cup. “[A replacement will be found] well in time for the national team’s trip to Scotland in July. We are certainly focussed on putting our best foot forward to get ourselves into the next World Cup cycle and a new coach will be an integral part of that.”Dighton who hails from Queensland has represented Netherlands, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Tasmania and Western Australia. He took charge of Canada’s team in October 2011 but they failed to qualify for the ICC World Twenty20 being played in Sri Lanka in September this year.

Simon Katich is looking forward to putting his disciplinary hearing behind him after he escaped suspension from Cricket Australia for cutting comments he made about Michael Clarke in October

ESPNcricinfo staff05-Dec-2011Simon Katich is looking forward to putting his disciplinary hearing behind him after he escaped suspension from Cricket Australia for cutting comments he made about Michael Clarke in October. Katich pleaded guilty at a CA Code of Behaviour hearing, chaired by retired county court judge Gordon Lewis in Melbourne on Monday, and was handed an official reprimand.”It’s not something you want to go through but I’m glad it’s out of the way now and very grateful for Commissioner Lewis’ findings,” Katich said on SEN radio after the hearing.”Obviously I said things for a reason. At the time I was still coming to terms with the mixed messages I’d been receiving over the previous few months from the chairman of selectors and from other people involved in the team. From that point of view I said what I said, but at the end of the day now I just want to move forward and play some good cricket for New South Wales and put this behind me.”The hearing was delayed from its original date of November 21 due to scheduling conflicts, after Katich was charged by Cricket Australia for his comments on October 28, when he suggested that his dressing-room stoush with Clarke in 2009 had contributed to his axing from Australia’s side. After scoring a Sheffield Shield hundred, Katich was asked whether the appointment of a new chairman of selectors, John Inverarity, would help his cause in winning a recall.”It’s pleasing to hear but I think you don’t have to be Einstein to figure out that it’s not just the selectors that had a part in sending me on my way,” Katich said at the time. “I mean to be brutally honest obviously what happened in the dressing room here a few years ago didn’t help my cause. And obviously the captain and coach are selectors.”Just because he [Inverarity] is going to be chairman of selectors or whatever role it is I wouldn’t have thought that’d make too much difference.”When asked if he could expect to play for Australia again while Clarke remained captain, Katich said: “I wouldn’t have thought so. That’s probably why I’m in this position in the first place.”In the dressing rooms after the 2009 Sydney Test, Katich grabbed the then vice-captain Clarke by the throat after an argument over when the team song would be sung. After Monday’s hearing, Katich softened his tone when asked about his relationship with Clarke.”We were able to play cricket for a good couple of years there in the same team without it causing any problems, so from my point of view I didn’t see any dramas in that respect,” Katich said. “I guess I have just been searching for answers as to why I wasn’t in the team, given that I felt I’d been performing to a reasonable standard over the last three years.”Katich was set to fly back to Canberra on Monday evening to play in the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Tasmania at Manuka Oval, starting on Tuesday.

Jason Krejza is in line for a surprise international comeback and Cameron White will captain Australia’s ODI team for the first time in the final match against England in Perth on Sunday

Brydon Coverdale03-Feb-2011Jason Krejza is in line for a surprise international comeback and Cameron White will captain Australia’s ODI team for the first time in the final match against England in Perth on Sunday. Australia have already wrapped up the series with a 5-1 lead and with the World Cup rapidly approaching, Michael Clarke and Shane Watson will be rested for the series finale.That has opened the door for the Western Australia batsman Adam Voges to make his return to the squad, nearly a year after he last played for Australia. And Steven Smith has been ruled out with a hip injury that he sustained during Wednesday’s win at the SCG, which will increase the chances of Krejza making his one-day debut as the sole specialist spinner in the squad.If Krejza plays at the WACA, it will be his first international outing since he was belted out of the Test attack at the same venue by South Africa in December 2008, when his aggressive bowling style that leaked runs proved costly. That was his second Test, and it undid much of the good work he achieved by taking 12 wickets during his debut against India in Nagpur the previous month.However, since then Krejza has been an effective offspinner in the shorter formats for Tasmania, and at times the Tigers have even used him to open the bowling. The absence of the preferred slow bowlers Nathan Hauritz (shoulder), Xavier Doherty (back) and Smith, could even give Krejza the slim hope of a World Cup call-up, despite not being in the 30-man preliminary squad.”Jason is a very skilled spinner and more than capable batsman who has already enjoyed international success and we are sure will seize the opportunity,” the chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch said. “Adam is having a very successful Ryobi Cup season for Western Australia and has good all-round skills with bat, ball and in the field. Adam was part of the Australian team’s one-day series win in India late in 2009 and we are sure will relish the chance to again represent his country.”The other major change is the leadership, which will be handled by White, who last month became Australia’s new Twenty20 captain. White has been vice-captain under Clarke during this series and the selectors are confident he will lead the side well, with the newly in-form Clarke in need of a break in the lead-up to the World Cup.”Both Michael Clarke and Shane Watson have had a very heavy workload this summer and as key players going into the ICC Cricket World Cup a decision has been made that they will not play in Perth for the final match of this series,” Hilditch said. “Shane and Michael will remain in Sydney until attending the Allan Border Medal on Monday which provides them a few days at home before departing for India next Wednesday.”Cameron White will assume captaincy of the side for this match and we are sure given his performance as vice-captain this series and record as captain of Victoria, he will do a fine job in leading this side.”White will become the 19th man to captain Australia in one-day internationals and the first Victorian since Shane Warne led the team in 11 matches in 1998-99. He will be in charge of a side thin on batting experience, with the backup wicketkeeper Tim Paine the likely man to replace Watson as Brad Haddin’s opening partner.Squad Brad Haddin (wk), Tim Paine, Callum Ferguson, Cameron White (capt), David Hussey, Adam Voges, Mitchell Johnson, John Hastings, Jason Krejza, Brett Lee, Shaun Tait, Doug Bollinger.

Ian Chappell believes Australia’s selectors may be forced to skip a generation in a bid to identify a new attack leader, after the three seamers chosen for the second Test at Adelaide – Doug Bollinger, Ryan Harris and Peter Siddle – suffered one of Austra

Andrew Miller at Adelaide05-Dec-2010Ian Chappell believes Australia’s selectors may be forced to skip a generation in a bid to identify a new attack leader, after the three seamers chosen for the second Test at Adelaide – Doug Bollinger, Ryan Harris and Peter Siddle – suffered one of Australia’s most demoralising days in the field in recent Ashes history.On a blisteringly hot day, with temperatures exceeding 37 degrees, England’s batsmen cruised to 2 for 317, a lead of 72, with Alastair Cook racking up his second consecutive hundred in a tally of 371 runs since his last dismissal on the opening day of the series. Though Australia had their chances early on, most notably when Jonathan Trott survived a run-out chance and a catch in the gully in quick succession, England cashed in with alacrity as soon as the new ball threat had been negated.Speaking to ESPNcricinfo, Chappell nominated the 19-year-old Josh Hazlewood, who is currently sidelined with a stress fracture, as the type of player in whom they will have to invest, much as was the case during their last period of rebuilding in the 1980s, when Craig McDermott was also blooded as a teenager. “The fast bowlers I see are handy back-up guys, but not attack leaders, not even into the future,” he said. “Australia has got to be looking outside this group and into the next group.”One of the problems for Australia, if you’re a batting side, you say to yourself they’ve got efficient fast bowlers, but they don’t have an attack leader,” he added. “Mitchell Johnson was for a little while, and that’s why he was such a big loss to the team, even if he was an inconsistent bowling leader.”Before him there was Brett Lee, before him obviously Glenn McGrath, and before him Craig McDermott and Merv Hughes. These are the fellows you look to on a day like [yesterday], if they get a wicket it helps the rest of the attack. Instead England looked to the scoreboard and thought, let’s get on top of them, let’s grind them down, because they haven’t got that guy who can come back and break open the innings.”Despite his criticism, Chappell said he admired the efforts that the current attack had put in, but felt they were badly let down by their fielders and afterwards lacked the skills to get back on level terms. “Australia had to get early wickets and keep England in bounds,” he said. “They got as big a gift as Australia gave on the first day, when Andrew Strauss made a monumental blunder. But they needed to go on from there.”One of the reasons why Bollinger and Harris were brought in was not just their bowling ability, but they are the type of guys who give you all you’ve got,” he said. “When it’s such a hot day, and Saturday was the worst type of hot day, with that hot northerly wind, it’s terrible. You’ve got to know in the back of your mind on such a day, you can’t afford to miss opportunities.”One man who didn’t offer a single opportunity throughout his day’s work, however, was Cook, who finished the day on 136 not out, having compiled an innings that Chappell believed epitomised England’s single-minded attitude to their Ashes campaign.”I’m staggered at his endurance ability,” he said. “Forget the batting, just look at the endurance he showed to back up such a long stint at the crease at Brisbane and repeat the dose here at Adelaide. England have talked a lot in the lead-up about how they were determined to make this a special series, but it’s one thing to talk about it, you’ve actually got to do, and England are doing it.”

The ECB chief executive, David Collier, says that the proliferation of non-England-educated cricketers in the national set-up is a consequence of the 1990s policy of non-competitive sports in schools

Andrew Miller at Lord's08-Apr-2010The ECB chief executive, David Collier, says that the proliferation of non-England-educated cricketers in the national set-up is a consequence of the 1990s policy of non-competitive sports in schools, but believes that homegrown talent can be nurtured through the use of performance-related pay and other incentives as set out in the ECB’s new strategic plan, “Grounds to Play”.Speaking at the launch of the initiative, which includes among its aims a commitment to producing 50 England-qualified cricketers under the age of 26 by 2013, Collier stated that there were legal implications in seeking an outright ban on cricketers from overseas who wish to apply for British citizenship, but believed that the problem could be overcome by improving standards among the players currently working their way through England’s age-group levels.Although Collier would not be drawn into an outright criticism of the South African-born players in the current national set-up, he tacitly admitted that their pre-eminence was a growing concern, with Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen already regular squad members, and Craig Kieswetter and Michael Lumb set for greater prominence at the coming World Twenty20.”You have to act within international and legal regulations. Once people are qualified, we have to accept that is okay,” said Collier. “The issue we have got is that we want to make sure that English-qualified players force their way into that side through the system.”We would love to see a whole host of young English players being the best in the world and pushing themselves forward for selection. That is why we are investing in academies, that is why we are investing in performance-related fee payments, that is why we want Under-26 players playing regular county cricket.”To hasten the process of preparing their youngsters for international cricket, the ECB are set to introduce a performance-related aspect to 44% of their annual payments to the counties, which equates to roughly £700,000, while also investing £3million in the development of 13 to 18-year-olds after studies showed that English teenagers, across all sports, are less mentally and physically mature than their contemporaries from other countries.”My personal view is we are paying the price for that period when we went through non-competitive sport in schools,” said Collier. “That was eight to 10 years ago, and so it’s the generation coming though because it takes time to correct into the next cycle. If you invest in an 8-10 year-old today, he’s unlikely to come through for another ten years. But if you don’t start now, you never will.”Among the on-field goals of the strategic plan are a successful defence of the Ashes in Australia this winter, and victory at an ICC tournament before 2013 – an achievement that no England team has managed since the World Cup was first staged in 1975. To that end, it was announced that investment in the national team would increase by 28%, assuming the Davies Review into Crown Jewel events (currently in hiatus pending the general election) is not carried through.Perhaps the most crucial aspect of the plan, however, is a commitment to funding new coaches and facilities to cope with the significant rise in participation among young players since 2007. In that time, the ratio between players and coaches has grown from 16.73 to 18.34, a rise that Collier said amounted to a “timebomb” if it was not matched by continued investment. The ECB is seeking an additional £10million of lottery funding on top of their £38million Sport England award.

Victory keeps mathematical hopes of quarter-finals alive, although results must go their way

ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay17-Jul-2025Worcestershire Rapids retained their sliver of a hope of Vitality Blast qualification with a 45-run win over Notts Outlaws at Visit Worcestershire New Road.The Rapids amassed a hefty 206 for seven thanks to punchy contributions from the top five, led by Ethan Brookes (57 from 20 balls) and Brett D’Oliveira (46, 36). Dillon Pennington took 3 for 34.The Outlaws replied with 161 all out (Tom Moores 57 from 29, Matt Montgomery 47 from 22, Brookes 3 for 30) to suffer a defeat which leaves their qualification hopes also hanging by a thread. The Outlaws must beat Lancashire Lightning tomorrow and hope that Warwickshire Bears and Leicestershire Foxes lose. The Rapids, meanwhile, their group games over, need the Bears, Foxes and Outlaws to lose, accompanied by the required seismic shift in net run-rate.Both sides require a highly unlikely cocktail of results from the final round of games. After their erratic campaigns, it’s highly likely that neither will figure in the quarter-finals.The Rapids were put in but Isaac Mohammed (27, 15) delivered a vibrant start before he was superbly held on the deep mid-wicket boundary by Calvin Harrison, so close to the Ladies Pavilion that he could have had a cake.D’Oliveira and Kashif Ali kept the tempo high with a stand of 62 from 39 balls. Kashif (34, 21) lifted Liam Patterson-White to long-on and D’Oliveira steered Pennington to slip but Brookes and Adam Hose bashed 59 from 28 balls.Hose (33, 21) lifted Pennington to long off but Brookes struck the ball beautifully to thunder to an 18-ball half-century. He took his side past 200 with 16 from three balls from Sams in the final over.The Outlaws’ chase suffered early damage when Freddie McCann sliced a slog at the eighth ball, from Khurram Shahzad, to cover and Jack Haynes was brilliantly caught by Blast debutant Ben Gibbons at long on. Gibbons took a simpler catch from a failed Joe Clarke scoop off Shahzad and when Moises Henriques skewed Brookes to backward point, The Outlaws were 49 for four and in a pickle.Montgomery kept his side in contention by flailing a six and nine fours. The South African was starting to worry the home fans and had taken 19 from a Ben Allison over before lifting the last ball of it to deep cover.Brookes’ happy day continued when he had Sams and Patterson-White caught off successive balls. Moore peered through the gloaming to biff a 27-ball half-century but his departure, to another fine boundary catch, this time by Hose, effectively ended the content.Both these teams still harbour a vestigial hope of qualification but both are likely to be sitting at home in quarter-final week pondering what might have been with a bit more consistency.

Seamer says aggressive gameplans can give her a second wind at back end of career

Valkerie Baynes02-Dec-2022Kate Cross says England Women are ready to embrace a more aggressive approach under the guidance of new head coach Jon Lewis.Upon linking up with his charges at their training base in Loughborough last week, Lewis revealed he wanted them to play less safe and “walk towards the danger” just as he had seen the England Men’s sides do across formats in his previous role as their elite pace bowling coach.It’s an approach that may come naturally to the younger members of the squad, with the likes of Alice Capsey, Freya Kemp, Issy Wong and Lauren Bell all fearlessly grabbing the international opportunities given to them over the summer during the final months of Lisa Keightley’s three-year tenure as head coach.And while Kate Cross, the 31-year-old seamer, believes it will require a “mindset shift” for the team as a whole, she’s all in.”If you’re not willing to move with the times, then you’re going to get stuck behind anyway,” Cross said from Antigua, where the ODI squad is preparing for the first of three matches against West Indies on Sunday.”I’m not daft, I know that people are going to work out how to face me and how to attack me and that’s ultimately going to put pressure on me. So if I can get ahead of that curve now, then that’s pretty handy for me as a player.”How it looks for me might look very different to how it looks for Freya Kemp or Katherine Brunt. That’s where I think Lewy is going to come in and be really clear with our roles in the team, and what that looks like and what is needed from us.”From a bowling point of view, we’ve got such a big unit now and a really exciting unit, that it will be more how we approach the game as a unit, because it’ll be up to the five or six bowlers that are out there to try and bowl teams out. It’s going to be interesting, but I’m really looking forward to it.”Related

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Cross is an admirer of how England Men’s red- and white-ball teams have executed the positive ethos promoted by their respective head coaches, Brendon McCullum and Matthew Mott, reacting on her Instagram stories to an ECB post about the Test team’s feats on the opening day in Pakistan, saying: “Changing the game, this team”. And she said the concept wasn’t completely alien to the Women’s group, who had talked about adopting a similar approach under Keightley and captain Heather Knight over the summer.”Personally for me, it’s a really nice time for this to come in,” she added. “It’s getting that second wind in your career. You don’t want to be the old senior pro that is stuck in their ways and just does what they always do. It feels like a really nice time for me personally as well, to be getting that messaging.”The thing that I’ve noticed with the youngsters is just the lack of fear that they have when they play. That’s probably an element of coming in and making debuts in the Hundred and playing in front of big crowds, and having the opportunity to impress people. Sometimes I think players from my generation could have been doing that, but it was a bit behind the scenes, you weren’t on TV, it wasn’t even live-streamed back then.”Those youngsters are just used to that environment. For me, what is exciting is they don’t really care who’s bowling at them or who they’re bowling at, they just go and do their thing. That’s the making of a really exciting team.”The ODIs in Antigua will form part of the ICC Women’s Championship, in which England are yet to get off the mark following their 3-0 defeat by India in September.Cross is not part of the T20I squad staying on – with Brunt, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Sarah Glenn and Wong joining them – for five matches from December 11. She will return home along with Emma Lamb, Alice Davidson-Richards and Tammy Beaumont after the third ODI in a week’s time but for now she is relishing being back in the Caribbean, where she made her international debut in 2013 and where she came as a youngster herself to watch the men play on the 2004 Test tour.”I remember coming out here as a young kid watching [Steve] Harmison and [Matthew] Hoggard bowling on pitches like this and making West Indian players look silly,” she said. “I also did see Brian Lara get 400, so maybe I shouldn’t say that. But I’m a huge cricket fan, I’ve been lucky to come out here and watch England men play, so it’s great to be back here… it’s a special place for me.”

In response to KP’s 300, Central Punjab ended day two on 212 for 8

ESPNcricinfo staff02-Jan-2021
Usman Salahuddin and Saad Nasim struck half-centuries for Central Punjab in their response to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s 300 in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, but Irfanullah Shah’s four-wicket haul helped KP end day two as the happier of the two teams. CP ended the day at 212 for 8, with 88 runs behind KP.Shah made the early inroads for KP, removing both the CP openers Muhammad Akhlaq (4) and Ali Asif (8) cheaply. Salahuddin then repaired the early damage, adding 64 and 48 with Mohammad Saad and Saad Nasim respectively. While Saad fell for 26, Salahuddin and Nasim went onto make half-centuries. However, Nasim’s dismissal for 55 off 109 balls triggered a late slide as CP lost four wickets for a mere 22 runs. Shah played a part in it, claiming the wickets of wicketkeeper-batsman Ali Shan and captain Hasan Ali, who was dismissed off what turned out to be the last ball on the second day. Incidentally, Ali had got KP’s Sajid Khan off the last ball on the opening day.Shah was backed up by Khalid Usman, who came away with 2 for 29 in his 13 overs. Khan and Arshad Iqbal, meanwhile, picked up one wicket each for KP.Earlier in the day, KP added 15 runs to their overnight 285 for 7 before they were bowled out. From 266 for 4, they fell to 300 all out, with Ali returning the innings’ best figures of 4 for 62.

Flower had been confirmed as Kings XI’s assistant coach on Saturday

ESPNcricinfo staff09-Mar-2020Andy Flower has been named as St Lucia Zouks’ new head coach for the 2020 CPL season.The Zouks were sold to KPH Dream Cricket Private Limited, the owners of Kings XI Punjab, last month, and Flower was named as Kings XI’s new assistant coach on Saturday.ALSO READ: St Lucia Zouks sold to Kings XI Punjab ownersThe appointment mirrors the one made by Red Chillies Entertainment in 2019, who named Brendon McCullum as Trinbago Knight Riders’ head coach and Kolkata Knight Riders’ assistant coach. McCullum was later announced as KKR’s head coach, after the franchise decided he merited the top job.Flower coached England from 2009 until 2014, and stayed at the ECB until October last year as ‘technical director of elite cricket’. He stepped down from that position in 2019, and coached Maratha Arabians to the Abu Dhabi T10 title in his first role since his departure. He is currently coaching Multan Sultans in the Pakistan Super League, who are top of the table with five wins from seven games.James Foster coached St Lucia last season, and Brad Hodge held the role in 2018. The franchise last reach the knockout stages of the CPL in 2016.”I am excited to lead and coach this team,” Flower said, according to a press release. “I am a fan of the Caribbean Premier League and would love to be the coach to be associated with the team to bring victory home to the fans in St. Lucia.”Satish Menon, Kings XI Punjab’s CEO, said: “I am delighted to have some one of the caliber and eminence of Andy Flower; we sure look forward to a great season ahead. [sic]”